Thursday, August 16

Baghdad - The mother of Samah Hussein grieves over the body at a Baghdad morgue. The boy was among 12 people reportedly killed by a suicide car bombing outside the U.S. military's Camp Cuervo. (Photo by Samir Mizban, June 13, 2004. A Pulitzer Prize winning photo)

Tears are colorblind. Love knows no country or race. Bonds are universal. Pain is inevitable. Children are precious. All his work is done, yet so much undone. This mother and son is every mother and son. Death don't choose but war does. Parting is difficult. Silence is deafening. Can someone hear her soft but deep sobs? Why How When Where? Ultimate price for being innocent. Race and religion draw borders. Vengeance mars humanity. Love never kills and Love never dies. So why don't we ever give Love a chance?

Today I dedicate one of my fav songs to this unknown child...I'm sorry this happened to you Samah but know that I'm thinking of you...and I CARE.

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Oh Keshi!That picture of the grieving mother is so heartbreaking!When I see a picture like this I think about all those innocent people that have lost their lives through the war and suicide car bombings.

May dear Samah rest in peace!And may his memory always be a blessing to his mother.I feel her grief when I see this picture....it's so very sad!I know how much you care Keshi!I do too!

I am reminded of a scene from Lord of the Rings 2 which struck me as so true. The mad King, after being restored by Gandalf said while visiting the grave of his son, "no parent should ever have to bury their children".

freedom to me means being able to go out without fear, being able to make my own decisions without being killed or burned, being able to stand up for my self without being persecuted... being able to be a girl and be educated and most of all.... being able to say that if i could support my self that i could be the bread winner ... i could make money and support my family

Great post Keshi. You know it has made me wonder before about these people. They give so much bull about religion but yet fail to do the simplest thing called recognizing and practicing the language of love. Thats when mishaps happen. When the basic steps were not taken noticed of.

While the world talks of global economy and shrinking borders, this is the reality that is being ignored.

Shame that in todays world policies we still can't resolve the basic issues and it's the innocent people who bear the brunt of it all, while the policy makers trot around with their bunch of bodyguards.

the only people who know about war are the ones who have suffered on account of it... you can read a hundred books but won't find a single word that can even come close of describing their bereavement...

i think death is beautiful.it must be thought of as a release.Release into the unknown,but yet a release from the chains of the present.And not to grieve for death because it comes sooner or later.She'll meet her son soon.It's just that he went early.

Hi Keshi,The pic depicts the real scene of today..Once i read "Th kite Runner" the novel based of Afganistan and i swear its horrible to read abt the life out there..We can just pray that peace and love spread around the world..

hi Keshi,yes! terrio'sm , war , and Killing shall Never be done on any Grounds..we should go together , to give one Chance to Wonderful Feeling Of LOVE dear..

i am shocked and SOrry for Samah..i am Sorry that People like us have killed her for Nonsense ..I am Sorry for not able to do anything , even if i can do that or i am able todo that,,hmmmm i am not coward but the people around me in other countries should be motivatd..

Aditi, please read some history.**wasn't warfare in the old days better.WTF!!! Ghengis Khan, Roman Empire, Aztec blood sacrifices, the First Emperor of China, African tribal wars, Persian Empire, Alexander...In the old days, conquered children were enslaved or slaughtered. Millions of them.

As for people who murder children in the name of their god, they are the devil incarnate. As was Saddam, for gassing the Kurdish children of Halabja. As are the people who murder women for "honour"...

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Keshi, tears are indeed colour blind for they dont have sight, then can just be felt ....

My first impression of real war (beyond books) was the Gulf War, however at that time I understood nothing beyond some of the concerns tht my family used to discuss on the dinner table ....

The first time that I understood wht actually war means was the 9/11 attack ..... And ever since then I remembered my opening statement in one of the essays that I had written in inter-school competition at the time of Gulf War - "War and destruction means the same, look at it from any side of the prism and you will find that it is a coin with two phase of a single soul" ....

THERE IS NEVER A GAIN IN ANY KIND OF WAR, its an illusion and fallacy, but no one perhaps realises it ...... Wars of any kind even if it fought for mankind has the potential impact of loss of lives and brining sorrow .... if there is one winner it is the death .... life has no chance

The irony Keshi is that though human civilization is so called the most evolved civilization, they are the only ones who kill their own species .... God perhaps designed humans in a very inhumane way ....

I cannot but afford my sympathies and heartfelt condolescence to Samah's family

well i am going through an extremely painful,depressing and confusing time of my life which is basically keeping me down and very self absorbed but this post of urs made me realize once again that there are people out there in far worse a condition than me...and that my problems is but a wave in the vast ocean...

Keshi, I know of nobody in this weird world in which we all exist that could have done a post as good as that.Lovely post Keshi. Well done!That's why you are an inspirational blogger and that's why you deserved the award!

Anits I hope so too...as long as even ppl like us keep thinking too 'high' of ourselves, the world will continue to suffer...

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Menchie thats right..this so WRONG! Very very wrong.

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hey Vik!

It is unbelievably sad that no one wants to even think abt such events anymore Vik...ppl just chuck em out of their heads saying it's the 'daily' thing...HOLD ON...We cant just go on ignoring it just cos it happens everyday CAN WE?

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u r absolutely right Toothy!

**a world caught between a lot blidfolded by power and money, and another with religion

thats just it. ppl r so selfish n greedy. its always about THEM.

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Mohan she's my mother too...and ur's too..

**Human beings will continue to suffer like this until they see other human being with humanity.

Tys I feel that too...so sad to hv done nothing to save that child's life!

I feel useless.

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hey Vish!

**simple i can laugh when v give awards for this...no journalist shouldn't be given award fro this...rather if they develop a way to over come this they should be..

I agree..but a journalist's job is to raise AWARENESS...I guess this PIC did it so very well. We all see the HUMANITY and the PAIN n SUFFERING thru this pic. If not for this pic, how do we capture what ppl go thru in those lands? ppl like me will never know...never feel their pain..unless for pics like this.

So i guess that journalist deserves the award for going to those places, risking their lives and taking pics like this to raise awareness among the rest of the world.

And I guess this journalist did something that i havent done. That way he/she has really done something about it whereas I havent.

Amazing image... However we are inundated with these images almost to a point of desensitisation.

Imagine seeing that image for the first time and how it would effect you.

You have done a good job of capturing the intangiable love, its sounds so easy get on with it and love one annother. WHy in practice is it so hard. 20,000 common ancestry is hard to erase, petty squables, and little things are hard to forget...

Quote from Mother Teresa:"Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at all. Do it for peace. Let us radiate the peace of God and so light His light and extinguish in the world and and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power. Smile at one another. It is not always easy.

God loves the world through you and me. Are we that love and that compassion? Christ came to be his Father's compassion. God is loving the world through you and and through me and through all those who are His love and compassion in the world."

in my humble opinion it is just so absolutely fuc#ed up in the extreme that iraqis are killing iraqis; i just can not in any way comprehend this. and the fact that beautiful iraqi kids are thus getting killed every day, is even more fuc#ed and totally incomprehensible and destructive. i only need to see or read about images and stories such as this, to realise how very lucky i am to be here and not there. so thanx keshi for reminding me of that much. ~

The innocent are the ones that pay in any war. I have read in several sources that the "coallition forces" death toll in Iraq is around 4,000 soldiers. The Iraqi citizen death toll is well over 70,000 if not an awful lot more. The numbers keep changing on a daily basis but you can surely see the obvious ... almost 20 innocent victims for every soldier death.

Yep ... they certainly are setting the Iraqi citizens free ... if there are any left alive

George said... The innocent are the ones that pay in any war. I have read in several sources that the "coallition forces" death toll in Iraq is around 4,000 soldiers. The Iraqi citizen death toll is well over 70,000 if not an awful lot more. The numbers keep changing on a daily basis but you can surely see the obvious ... almost 20 innocent victims for every soldier death

**At least here in the US, from the way the media covers it, only US soldiers and their families are real human beings, while Iraqis are just stats. ,the sme was true for the japanese and the vietnamese

only a mother can understand another mtother's sorrow at this loss..... no religion asks for death of inncoent lives and no god is so unkind to ask for scuh a sacrifice...it's us humans who do such cruel acts gleefully and then put labels of faith and god on them to justify ourselves...

Children are not precious to everyone. The suicide bomber that did this does not have a shred of humanity in him. All the terrorists have is hate. That is why it is easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in this War. The good guys look at this scene, and there is a tear in their eyes ... the bad guys (terrorists) look at this scene as a means to an end.

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